DT’s Tower: Who You Gonna Call?

Shameless use of popular culture segue over, the point of this blog is to pick up where I left off last time with my Delegation Game. I thought it might be useful to show how I am attempting to solve a problem that would take me out of flow very quickly if I’m not careful.

I might have mentioned 🙂 but I’m a Lord. As a raging introvert (extroverts can be raging, why not intorverts?) the ‘people’ side of the Talent Dynamics square is not my strong point.

In fact according to my profile report I have 0% in Blaze energy. I’m reposting the square as proof.

Impressive I know. This really makes it hard for me to delegate but even more so… it makes it hard for me to know who to call. My first instinct is to do the task myself. My second response is to think about training or learning how to do it if I can’t do it at the moment. My third inclination is to park it until I have time to think about it…

… which never happens.

My Solution

Despite being introverted I am known to speak. Sometimes at length. Building on the flowchart that I shared last time I am identifying all the things that need to be done which I can’t do or don’t have time to do.

I’m using a spreadsheet so I’m definitely in my flow here. I’m then matching people who I can talk to who are either already part of my team, have some expertise in the area or show no signs of struggling with this particular item. Then I work down the list (making it a task which comes easily for me) and:

See if someone in the team is interested in helping

Investigating solutions with those with expertise

Asking how others who don’t seem to struggle solved the problem

Now there are still gaps. But whereas before it was a mountain of ‘stuff’ now I have specific things I need help with. During networking or casual business conversations I can talk about these issues and in all likelihood I will either get suggestions OR (best scenario) I will happen across someone who can solve it.

The point of all this is that I now ‘know’ who to call AND have a process to follow to stop delegation tripping me up in future (in theory).